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Calling Out Cruelty: AWI Asks USDA to Help States Clamp Down on Animal Abuse in Slaughter Plants
Kicked, beaten, exposed to extreme temperatures and weather—all too often, animals in slaughter plants are severely mistreated before they are...
AVMA Should Aver: Cramped Crates No Place for Pregnant Pigs
The American Veterinary Medical Association develops and endorses dozens of policies on a range of issues, including several that relate...
AWI Initiative Makes Animal Cruelty Data Readily Available to Researchers
AWI’s new Center for the Study of NIBRS Animal Cruelty Data (the Center) provides easy access to a wealth of information on...
NIH Keeps Chimps in Limbo at Alamogordo
The Chimpanzee Health, Improvement, Maintenance and Protection (CHIMP) Act requires all federally owned chimpanzees retired from research to be moved...
Making Life Easier for Rodents and Rabbits in Laboratories
Refinements for Rodents and Rabbits in Research Laboratories will be rolling off the presses soon. AWI will introduce the book—an update...
Macaques Maintain Red List “Endangered” Status for Now
In June, a committee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced that long-tailed macaques (LTMs) will continue...
Improving the Welfare of Captive Marmosets Using Visual Barriers
by Alexander Greig The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) is increasingly becoming a key species in behavioral and biomedical research. Because...
Compressed Newspaper as Safe and Suitable Substrate for Naked Mole-rats
by Jouvay Pantophlet Our project, supported by an AWI Refinement Research Award, focused on evaluating the safety of using compressed...
Protections Spring into Action Under Big Cat Public Safety Act
The Big Cat Public Safety Act (BCPSA), a bill championed by AWI, was signed into law by President Biden in December...
The Pantanal Is on Fire
South America’s Pantanal—one of the world’s most biodiverse regions—is burning with a ferocity not seen in the historic record, with...
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